from: Bunki Kramer (bkramer@srvusd.k12.ca.us)
Los Cerros Middle School
968 Blemer Road
Danville, CA 94526
art webpage - http://ww2.lcms.srvusd.k12.ca.us/faculty/faculty.html
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> In a message dated 5/9/1 1:51:58 AM, bkramer@srvusd.k12.ca.us writes:
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> << Hummm. Now many think of Van Gogh as being one of our greatest talents. >>
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> Ok Bunki.. :) I settle peacefully with your opinion on everything but that
> preceeding sentence...........He's definitly one of my favorites and I have a
> two volume biography
> of his life and letters to bro Theo -that I found facinating. The kids love
> the ear part, but he was so much more.........
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I don't understand why you are upset with the above statement I made.
Perhaps you misunderstood. He's one of my favorites too. The point I was
making is that most people (including myself) think of him as highly skilled
today but during his lifetime he couldn't get galleries/salons to show his
work OR get his works sold. Sadly people in his time didn't think he was
"talented". The "interesting part" is that society and his era DIDN'T think
he was talented so those two factors controlled what people then thought of
as "talented". Seems the perspective of the word "talented" can be changed
by the eye of the beholder...in mass or individually. Toodles...Bunki
